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"By Putting a Carbine Bullet Through Its Brain"

Date: ca. 1887

Medium: pen and ink on paper

Catalogue Number: 00125

Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Dimensions: 10 x 10" (25.4 x 25.4 cm), irreg.

Illustration: Outing (April 1887), p. 5, line engraving.

Inscription: ll: Remington.

Illustration Inscription: ll: Remington.


Provenance: Joseph E. McCarrell, San Francisco; (Argonaut Bookshop, San Francisco, 1950); Harry B. Smith, San Francisco, 1950-1955; (John Howell--Books, San Francisco, 1955); (Nancy Taylor, Fort Worth, Texas, 1955); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1955; present owner

Exhibitions

How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of Remington and Russell. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, May 14 - August 7, 1994.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington: Painting, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection 1972. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1973.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.